Glaxo Wellcome earmarks more for research
Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome spent Pounds 1.15 billion on research and development in 1997, according to its annual report. The firm, which notched up global sales worth Pounds 8 billion, says...
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How to really wake the Indian tiger
India in the Era of Economic Reforms
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A space cowboy goes it alone
Seeking total security, President Bush wants the US to build a national missile shield dubbed Son of Star Wars. The result, says Christoph Bluth, will be more insecurity for all. For the past four...
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The first Asian tigers
Reorient
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Path that crosses cultures
Immigrants want their children to retain a sense of their community and to be modern, writes Wang Gungwu At a conference in Singapore on modern education in immigrant communities, we were recently...
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Taking a look at the border picture
Borders - An Ethnic History of Europe since 1945 - A History of the Balkans
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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Ex-Soviet states quit science academy
The countries of Central Asia are dismantling their Soviet science structures. Last year, Turkmenistan quietly dissolved its Academy of Sciences. Now Kazakhstan plans to do the same. The Soviet...
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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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A current account of activity
The World Bank
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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A visual revolution gets on the starting grid
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
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Japan shy of target
Japan is unlikely to meet its target of having 100,000 foreign students in its higher education system by 2000. The number of foreign students choosing to study in Japan has started to fall after...
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Centenary for Beijing
Beijing University is to celebrate its 100th anniversary in grand style in May. University president Chen Jia'er said party and state leaders will join more than 10,000 alumni from home and abroad at...
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...